Reward and Benefits Partner

The Opportunity

We are partnering with a fast growing, international organisation to appoint a Reward & Benefits Partner (Europe). This is a high impact role operating across a complex, multi country environment, offering the opportunity to shape and embed a scalable, commercially effective reward strategy.

• Central London | Hybrid working
• Full time

You will work within a matrix structure, partnering senior leaders to deliver best in class reward frameworks, ensuring market competitiveness, strong governance and meaningful employee value.

This role offers a blend of strategic design and hands on delivery, ideal for someone who thrives in dynamic, evolving organisations.

Key Responsibilities

• Reward Advisory & Partnership
• Act as the trusted reward partner across Europe
• Advise on salary structures, incentives and benefits design
• Translate global reward principles into practical regional frameworks
• Provide expertise on job evaluation, pay positioning and retention strategies

Governance & Compliance

• Establish and maintain robust reward governance frameworks
• Ensure alignment with regulatory expectations and best practice
• Maintain clear documentation and oversight of incentive schemes

Incentives & Variable Pay

• Review and enhance bonus and incentive structures
• Develop consistent, transparent frameworks
• Partner leaders to design effective variable pay models

Benefits Strategy

• Review and evolve benefits offering across multiple countries
• Balance employee value with cost effectiveness and simplicity
• Support harmonisation across legacy and newly integrated businesses

Pay & Benchmarking

• Lead salary benchmarking and pay positioning activity
• Provide insight to support pay reviews, promotions and hiring decisions
• Deliver reward analysis to inform senior leadership discussions

M&A & Integration

• Support reward due diligence on acquisitions
• Assess legacy arrangements and integration risks
• Help embed consistent reward frameworks post acquisition

Data & Insight

• Deliver high quality reporting and reward analytics
• Identify trends, risks and opportunities across pay and benefits
• Support gender pay and broader reward reporting

About You

We are looking for someone who brings:

• Strong experience in reward, compensation and benefits
• Proven track record operating in complex or matrix organisations
• Deep understanding of pay structures, benchmarking and governance
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to translate data into insight
• Confidence influencing and advising senior stakeholders
• A commercial, pragmatic and solutions focused approach

Additional experience that would be valuable:

• Exposure to multi country or European reward environments
• Experience within regulated or professional services environments
• Background supporting acquisitions or organisational integration

Why Apply?

• Opportunity to shape reward strategy across a European platform
• High visibility role working with senior leadership
• Fast paced, evolving environment with real impact
• Blend of strategic and operational responsibility

If this sounds like the kind of role where you can make a real difference, we would love to hear from you.

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